Buddy Rich Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.”

“So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.”

“But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.”

“And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.”

“You only get better by playing.”

“To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.”

“I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.”

“I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.”

“I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.”

“There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.”